"How Steve Kluger's book "Last Days of Summer" fits into American History, and the events and obstacles the main characters face throughout the novel.
Title: "How Steve Kluger's book "Last Days of Summer" fits into American History, and the events and obstacles the main characters face throughout the novel.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 536 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"How Steve Kluger's book "Last Days of Summer" fits into American History, and the events and obstacles the main characters face throughout the novel.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 536 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Last Days of Summer" in American History
Last Days of Summer is set right around the entrance of the United States into World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor takes place in almost the middle of the novel.
Growing up as a Jew in New York City in an Italian neighborhood was very difficult for Joey Margolis. He was always getting beaten up by one group of kids, and then made up ridiculous stories …showed first 75 words of 536 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 536 total…makes them all the more remarkable. The fact that they are able to live their lives the way they do against the backdrop of war is amazing. If the characters in this novel had been put in any other time setting, I seriously doubt there could have been such a dramatic story of friendship. The author, Steve Kluger, put these people in difficult situations, and let us observe how they could miraculously triumph over them.